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OHNR: ohl 793
TRSID: ...__I _ _____,
INAME: Milton Zaslow
DOI: 930914 DTR: 980105
P.L. 86-36
IPLACE: Center for Cryptologic History Conf Rm., Fanx 3 IVIEWER: C. Baker, G Vanderpool .. T. Johnson
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We're still on the "B" Group problem. How about the (1-2G)? You could get into a series of crises that were once (1-2G). We certainly would need to talk about the Gulf of Tonkin crisis and your (1-2blkd) .. and maybe that should come first..
Let's talk about the Gulf of Tonkin. And, here again, Del Lang features. We were watching what was going on in the area. We saw the beginnings of Vietnamese actions. We reported them. And we reported the hostile actions on two occasions .. the first incident and the second incident.in both cases, before the event took place. We reported it electrically, and the ships in the Gulf were on electrical distribution. We believe they received a warning before the attack took place. What we did not know, was that it was a Vietnamese reaction to U.S. operations .. 34A. None of us had been
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Well, I wanted to talk about the Gulf of Tonkin crisis. This has been a very difficult one for me to write, because ..
Well, all I would say is, you should have the greatest confidence in writing that because of the paperthat Del Lang wrote. He wrote it at the time it occurred, not after it happened .. And he knew he was writing for history, and it was based totally on the facts. So ou should be ver comfortable with that.
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